Stanisław Lem had a genius for making fun of bureaucracy. I strongly recommend his novel Memoirs Found in a Bathtub. He could not criticize the Communists, so he made it about the USA, but I think it works perfectly well as criticism of any large bureaucracy. The story is about a man who is just joining The Organization…
…have been lost to me for like two and a half decades. I actively look for these books I remember little snatches of... I thought this one was a Stanislaw Lem book, and though I really, really enjoyed "Memoirs found in a bathtub" - but that wasn't this. The chant of "sanitized for your protection" during the ritual use of the toilet really sticks out in my childhood memory. I wonder if it will be as great, reading it as…
这里已经列出了很多好书。如果我没记错的话，好像还没人提到《路边野餐》。另外我也很喜欢 S. 莱姆的《浴缸里发现的日记》。
Many great books are already enumerated here. If I am not wrong, nobody mentioned Roadside picnic yet. Also liked Memoirs Found in a Bathtub by S. Lem.
Sadly unmentioned is Lem's quite distopion post-apocoliptic work, "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub", a future defined by mega-McCarthyism and the pursuit of any fragment of 'truth' however slimly defined that may be. Worth a read.
斯坦尼斯瓦夫·莱姆在讽刺官僚主义方面简直是个天才。我强烈推荐他的小说《浴缸里发现的日记》。他当时没法公开批评苏联阵营，所以把背景设定在了美国，但我觉得把它当成对任何大型官僚体制的批判都完全讲得通。故事讲的是一个刚加入“机构”的人……
Stanisław Lem had a genius for making fun of bureaucracy. I strongly recommend his novel Memoirs Found in a Bathtub. He could not criticize the Communists, so he made it about the USA, but I think it works perfectly well as criticism of any large bureaucracy. The story is about a man who is just joining The Organization…
……我已经把它弄丢了大概二十五年了。我一直在到处找这些只记得零碎片段的书……我本来以为这本是斯坦尼斯瓦夫·莱姆写的，虽然我确实非常非常喜欢《浴缸里发现的日记》——但并不是这本。上厕所仪式中念叨的“为了您的安全已消毒”在我的童年记忆里格外深刻。不知道现在读起来还会不会那么……
…have been lost to me for like two and a half decades. I actively look for these books I remember little snatches of... I thought this one was a Stanislaw Lem book, and though I really, really enjoyed "Memoirs found in a bathtub" - but that wasn't this. The chant of "sanitized for your protection" during the ritual use of the toilet really sticks out in my childhood memory. I wonder if it will be as great, reading it as…
这里已经列出了很多好书。如果我没记错的话，好像还没人提到《路边野餐》。另外我也很喜欢 S. 莱姆的《浴缸里发现的日记》。
Many great books are already enumerated here. If I am not wrong, nobody mentioned Roadside picnic yet. Also liked Memoirs Found in a Bathtub by S. Lem.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_Found_in_a_Bathtub 相关推荐，斯坦尼斯瓦夫·莱姆写的一部关于纸张“大分解”的绝妙小说。
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_Found_in_a_Bathtub Related, great Stanislaw Lem novel about the "Great Decomposition" of paper.
可惜没人提到莱姆那部相当反乌托邦且后末日风格的作品《浴缸里发现的日记》，那是一个被超级麦卡锡主义以及对任何哪怕定义极度模糊的“真相”碎片的追逐所定义的未来。很值得一读。
Sadly unmentioned is Lem's quite distopion post-apocoliptic work, "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub", a future defined by mega-McCarthyism and the pursuit of any fragment of 'truth' however slimly defined that may be. Worth a read.
如果你还没读过《浴缸里发现的日记》，听我一句劝，赶紧去搞一本来看。
If you haven't read Memoirs Found in a Bathtub do yourself a favor and get it post haste.